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December 18, 2024•Product

A product manager's 24 reflections on 2024

and how to use tarot cards for sprint planning.

October 28, 2024•AI

SeqRAG - Agents for the Rest of Us

Building Faster, More Reliable Agents with Sequential Retrieval-Augmented Generation

January 31, 2022•Product

The dangers of Product Longtermism

There are no guarantees the future will hold the same values as us, so what right do we have to encode ours upon them?

December 24, 2021•Product

A product manager’s 56 best (and stolen) insights from 2021

If you’re reading this, it means I succeeded in my mission to the future. What follows is a human year’s worth of data condensed into minutes.

December 1, 2021•Product

Your Best Creative Work Is Just a Cognitive Walk Away

Doing our best creative work sometimes means tricking ourselves into leaving our minds alone. Here are six things to try while walking to achieve this.

November 1, 2021•Product

The curse of success

Failure may be the most important part of the human experience. So why not run towards it?

September 21, 2021•Product

Brainwashed by design

“All you young people are brainwashed by design”, calmly provoked my neighbour. Not quite the reaction I expected after proudly showing off my renovated bathroom.

August 9, 2021•Product

How do you inspire your engineering team?

We don’t deserve the team we can’t inspire. Camaraderie, purpose, and appreciation need to be our priorities.

July 12, 2021•Product Management

‘Working Backwards’ to finally make remote work… work

How Amazonian thinking and communication tools are turning me into a remote work optimist.

May 12, 2021•product management

Ideas I copied to help steal more ideas

Stealing ideas doesn’t have to result in imposter syndrome. If anything, copying helps reveal our most authentic selves.

April 14, 2021•Communication

How to Earn the Right to Argue

Designing an argument to inspire a change of perspective.

March 16, 2021•Team

Team Names Are Not That Important

But by employing humour they can bring joy to the workplace and sometimes even make statements.

February 24, 2021•complexity

Stepping out of disorder

Our attitude to complexity is what determines our autonomy.

February 4, 2021•Philosophy

The Case Against Simplicity

The Pursuit of Simplicity Only Serves to Manufacture Our Consent, Not Our Understanding.

December 22, 2020•product management

A product manager’s reflections for a better 2021

“Difficulty is what wakes up the genius” has become my mantra of 2020 (thanks Nassim Taleb). If that's true then what follows should be pure gold: a collection of my best reflections for a challenging year.

December 15, 2020•Personal

My Tech, Books, Games, Apps and Movie Picks of 2020

No affiliate links. No financial incentives. Just my own beautiful biases for the best picks of 2020.

September 15, 2020•product management

How product managers should understand users

The limited ways we have been taught to interpret the world also limits our ability to understand our users. Nobody has taught me how to do this, so I decided to explore some solutions.

August 12, 2020•productivity

Building a Second Brain for Productivity

Today we operate from a basis of knowledge, confidence and creativity to pull together insights and build successful products. Here, I want to share how creating a personal note-taking system can act as a catalyst for connecting knowledge and ideas that will save you time, enhance problem-solving and boost creative thought.